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You can install the Recovery Console on your computer to make it available if you cannot restart
Windows. You can then select the Recovery Console option from the list of available operating
systems during startup. Install the Recovery Console on important servers and on the workstations
of IT personnel. This article describes how to install the Recovery Console to your Microsoft
Windows XP-based computer. To install the Recovery Console, you must be logged on as an
administrator.
Although you can run the Recovery Console by starting directly from the Windows XP CD, it is
generally more convenient to set it up as a startup option on your startup menu. To run the Recover
Console directly from the CD, see the "How to use the Recovery Console" section.
3. In the Open box, type d:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons where d is the drive letter for
the CD-ROM drive. In the case of 'Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, type
d:\amd64\winnt32.exe /cmdcons where d is the drive letter for the CD-ROM drive.
4. A Windows Setup Dialog Box appears. The Windows Setup Dialog Box describes the
5. Restart the computer. The next time that you start your computer, "Microsoft Windows
Alternatively, you can use a Universal Naming Convention (UNC)-established connection to install
Note You may receive an error message that is similar the following:
Setup cannot continue because the version of Windows on your computer is newer than the version
on the CD.
If this problem occurs, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base:
898594 You receive an error message if you try to install the Recovery Console on a Microsoft
You can enable and disable services, format drives, read and write data on a local drive
(including drives that are formatted to use the NTFS file system), and perform many other
administrative tasks. The Recovery Console is particularly useful if you have to repair your computer
by copying a file from a disk or CD-ROM to your hard disk, or if you have to reconfigure a service
If you cannot start your computer, you can run the Recovery Console from the Microsoft Windows
XP startup disks or the Windows XP CD-ROM. This article describes how to perform this task.
After Windows XP is installed on your computer, to start the computer and use the Recovery
Console you require the Windows XP startup disks or the Windows XP CD-ROM.
For more information about how to create Startup disks for Windows XP (they are not included with
Windows XP), click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Note To start the computer from the Windows XP CD-ROM, you must configure the basic
input/output system (BIOS) of the computer to start from your CD-ROM drive.
To run the Recovery Console from the Windows XP startup disks or the Windows XP CD-ROM, follow
these steps:
1. Insert the Windows XP startup disk into the floppy disk drive, or insert the Windows XP CD-
ROM into the CD-ROM drive, and then restart the computer.
Click to select any options that are required to start the computer from the CD-ROM drive if
2. When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console.
3. If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, select the installation that you must
4. When you are prompted, type the Administrator password. If the administrator password is
5. At the command prompt, type the appropriate commands to diagnose and repair your
Windows XP installation.
For a list of commands that are available in Recovery Console, type recovery console
commands or help at the command prompt, and then press ENTER.
For information about a specific command, type help commandname at the command
6. To exit the Recovery Console and restart the computer, type exit at the command prompt,
When you use the Recovery Console, you are working at a special command prompt instead of
the ordinary Windows command prompt. The Recovery Console has its own command interpreter.
To enter this command interpreter, you are prompted by Recovery Console to type the local
Administrator password.
When the Recovery Console starts, you can press F6 to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver, in
case you need such a driver to access the hard disk. This prompt works the same as it does during
The Recovery Console takes several seconds to start. When the Recovery Console menu appears, a
numbered list of the Windows installations on the computer appears. (Generally, only c:\Windows
exists.) Press a number before you press ENTER, even when only one entry appears. If you press
ENTER without selecting a number, the computer restarts and begins the process again.
When you see the prompt for %SystemRoot% (generally C:\Windows), you can start using the
Command actions
The following list describes the available commands for the Recovery Console:
• Batch executes commands that you specify in the text file, Inputfile. Outputfile holds the
output of the commands. If you omit the Outputfile parameter, output appears on the
screen.
• Bootcfg modifies the Boot.ini file for boot configuration and recovery.
• CD (Chdir) operates only in the system directories of the current Windows installation,
removable media, the root directory of any hard disk partition, or the local installation
sources.
• Chkdsk The /p switch runs Chkdsk even if the drive is not flagged as dirty. The /r switch
locates bad sectors and recovers readable information. This switch implies /p. Chkdsk
requires Autochk. Chkdsk automatically looks for Autochk.exe in the startup folder. If
Chkdsk cannot find the file in the startup folder, it looks for the Windows 2000 Setup CD-
ROM. If Chkdsk cannot find the installation CD-ROM, Chkdsk prompts the user for the
location of Autochk.exe.
• Copy copies one file to a target location. By default, the target cannot be removable media,
and you cannot use wildcard characters. Copying a compressed file from the Windows 2000
• Del (Delete) deletes one file. Operates within the system directories of the current
Windows installation, removable media, the root directory of any hard disk partition, or the
• Dir displays a list of all files, including hidden and system files.
• Disable disables a Windows system service or driver. The variable service_or_driver is the
name of the service or driver that you want to disable. When you use this command to
disable a service, the command displays the service's original startup type before it
changes the type to SERVICE_DISABLED. Note the original startup type so that you can use
• Diskpart manages partitions on hard disk volumes. The /add option creates a new
partition. The /delete option deletes an existing partition. The variable device is the device
name for a new partition (such as \device\harddisk0). The variable drive is the drive letter
for a partition that you are deleting (for example, D). Partition is the partition-based name
for a partition that you are deleting, (for example: \device\harddisk0\partition1) and can be
used instead of the drive variable. The variable size is the size, in megabytes, of a new
partition.
• Enable enables a Windows system service or driver. The variable service_or_driver is the
name of the service or driver that you want to enable, and start_type is the startup type for
an enabled service. The startup type uses one of the following formats:
SERVICE_BOOT_START
SERVICE_SYSTEM_START
SERVICE_AUTO_START
SERVICE_DEMAND_START
• Exit quits the Recovery Console, and then restarts the computer.
• Expand expands a compressed file. The variable source is the file that you want to expand.
By default, you cannot use wildcard characters. The variable destination is the directory for
the new file. By default, the destination cannot be removable media and cannot be read-
only. You can use the attrib command to remove the read-only attribute from the
destination directory. The option /f:filespec is required if the source contains more than
one file. This option permits wildcard characters. The /y switch disables the overwrite
confirmation prompt. The /d switch specifies that the files will not be expanded and
• Fixmbr repairs the startup partition's master boot code. The variable device is an optional
name that specifies the device that requires a new Master Boot Record. Omit this variable
• Format formats a disk. The /q switch performs a quick format. The /fs switch specifies
• Help If you do not use the command variable to specify a command, help lists all the
• Logon displays detected installations of Windows and requests the local Administrator
password for those installations. Use this command to move to another installation or
subdirectory.
• Map displays currently active device mappings. Include the arc option to specify the use of
Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) paths (the format for Boot.ini) instead of Windows device
paths.
• MD (Mkdir) operates only within the system directories of the current Windows
installation, removable media, the root directory of any hard disk partition, or the local
installation sources.
• Rd (Rmdir) operates only within the system directories of the current Windows
installation, removable media, the root directory of any hard disk partition, or the local
installation sources.
• Ren (Rename) operates only within the system directories of the current Windows
installation, removable media, the root directory of any hard disk partition, or the local
installation sources. You cannot specify a new drive or path as the target.
Several environment rules are in effect while you are working in the Recovery Console. Type set
system installation that you selected when you entered the Recovery Console.
copied files.
• AllowWildCards = FALSE prevents wildcard support for commands such as copy and del.
• NoCopyPrompt = FALSE means that you are prompted by the Recovery Console for
1. Restart your computer, click Start, click My Computer, and then double-click the hard disk
2. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options, and then click the View tab.
3. Click Show hidden files and folders, click to clear the Hide protected operating
4. At the root folder, delete the Cmdcons folder and the Cmldr file.
5. At the root folder, right-click the Boot.ini file, and then click Properties.
6. Click to clear the Read-only check box, and then click OK.
Warning: Modifying the Boot.ini file incorrectly may prevent your computer from
restarting. Make sure that you delete only the entry for the Recovery Console. Also, change
the attribute for the Boot.ini file back to a read-only state after you finish this procedure.
Open the Boot.ini file in Microsoft Windows Notepad, and remove the entry for the Recovery
To install the Recovery Console during the unattended installation of Windows, you must use the